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On 2018-02-23, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2018-02-22, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-02-22, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with going from IT to management in most places seems to be
>>> that you're labeled a computer geek and have to work vey hard to erase
>>> the label. Businesses seem like to like me to like to promote people with
>>> non-technical  backgrounds, and of course MBAs for upper management. It's
>>> almost like the way to get promoted from a computer job is to be a terrible
>>> programmer.
>>
>> The process is probably driven from both ends; the terrible programmers
>> have properties that make them attractive to management, and the programming
>> department can't wait to promote them out of harm's way.
>
> Or they're good programmers and the Peter Principle means they get promoted
> into management jobs they hate and are no good at. [FX: waves]
>
>> A lot of prominent managers started out as terrible programmers
>> <cough>Gates<cough>.
>
> *Was* he a "terrible programmer"?

Perhaps that's an overstatement; I said "terrible" to match the original
posting (see above).  Otherwise, I would say "mediocre".

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